“The elections will be held in 2027,” government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis reiterated today.
“The Prime Minister does not even listen to such suggestions. And if someone wants to say them before the debate starts, he rejects them,” Marinakis said, referring to the scenarios of early elections.
Talking to Real FM, Marinakis said that early elections are being rejected “because at the moment we are experiencing a very big crisis, another crisis, because of the war in the Middle East, where the issue for every country is stability, both on an economic and on a broader level.”
“Greece today has managed to have a stable government”
The government spokesman stressed that Greece today has managed to have a government that is stable, that can take decisions instantaneously, such as the assistance to Cyprus, the economic measures “and an economy that from being 27th among the 27 in Europe, in 2019, in growth rates, with 570,000 more people unemployed, an economy that is returning, creating surpluses and financing necessary measures to keep society standing.”
Marinakis also added that “when you have the major, it’s the least irresponsible, because you’re going up in the polls, because of the fact that people in the difficult times understand the serious ones, you take advantage of that to hold elections eight months, ten months, a year early. This thing, to put it very, very simply, is not Kyriakos Mitsotakis and, I’ll say it, it’s not New Democracy.”
“The Prime Minister won’t even hear of early elections”
The government spokesman noted that he has never made such a suggestion to the Prime Minister and does not know if it has been made by others, but he said “we have democracy, everyone speaks his mind. The Prime Minister even if somebody came to tell him that, which I don’t know, really, he doesn’t even listen to it.”
Marinakis concluded by saying that “elections will be held in 2027 for two reasons. One is the one I described to you. Because I believe that we should not move as many have moved in the past, who put their personal demographic interest above the interest of the country. This does not represent this party and especially Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and the second reason is that the Southwest wants to be judged on what it did right and what mistakes it corrected over the course of four years. For example, the average wage has already reached and exceeded, in terms of full-time employment, EUR 1 500, and the minimum wage is tending to reach the pre-election target of EUR 950. There are still major projects that will be delivered in the coming months, as some others have been delivered.”
